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It's the school's problem to solve in part because the solution is to take those kids and move them back to a level that's more appropriate, but they get strong parental resistance - and sometimes resistance from the kid who hasn't yet learned how to fail publicly and has a large part of their identity wrapped up in their math advancement. It can be a huge shot to the ego, but the alternative is advanced classes where you have students who are both younger from an age and maturity perspective and also have massive gaps in their comprehension. [/quote]

The solution is to keep the class rigorous and let those kids earn poor grades.  They can always retake the class the next year at a more appropriate grade level.  There isn't a perfect answer for this.  FCPS can either allow for acceleration, which means that gifted kids get what they need, but a bunch of non-gifted kids risk blows to their ego, or FCPS can put up barriers to acceleration, which means that gifted kids are much less likely to be able to access the coursework they need, but the other kids will have their egos protected.  I'd prefer to see FCPS err on the side of serving gifted kids and letting everyone else take responsibility for their own choices.  [/quote]

Or just stop overselecting for advancement. When you do that, parents won't feel the need to artificially advance their kids, and then you'll have fewer of these issues.[/quote]

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